Two of our papers appeared in Findings of ACL 2026

This work spans two complementary directions in applied NLP: psychologically informed multimodal emotion recognition through CMTD and stronger language-model foundations for Vietnamese legal documents through ViLegalLM.

• Minh-Tien Nguyen, Huu-Loi Le, Manh-Cuong Phan, and Hajime Hotta, “CMTD: Cognitive Modeling with Traits and Distortions for Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations,” in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL, pp. 839–854, 2026.

• Truong-Phuc Nguyen, Quy-Nhan Nguyen, and Minh-Tien Nguyen, “ViLegalLM: Language Models for Vietnamese Legal Text,” in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL, pp. 36136–36150, 2026.